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Quotes About Skills

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
~ Carol S. Dweck
But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort and coaching over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort, coaching, and time will take someone? Who knows—maybe the experts were right about Jackson, Marcel, Elvis, Ray, Lucille, and Charles—in terms of their skills at the time. Maybe they were not yet the people they were to become.
~ Carol S. Dweck
growth mindset doesn't force you to pursue something. It just tells you that you can develop your skills. It's still up to you whether you want
~ Carol S. Dweck
Prodigios o no, todos tenemos intereses que pueden florecer como habilidades.
~ Carol S. Dweck
La lección es esta: crea una organización que aprecie el desarrollo de las habilidades, y observa cómo emergen los líderes. 93
~ Carol S. Dweck
We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people who did not have natural ability, but who developed exceptional skills.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Por cierto, la mentalidad de crecimiento no te fuerza a dedicarte a nada; simplemente te dice que puedes desarrollar tus habilidades. De nuevo eres tú quien tiene que decidir si quieres hacerlo o no.
~ Carol S. Dweck
La mentalidad de crecimiento es la creencia de que las habilidades pueden cultivarse, pero no te dice cuánto cambio es posible ni cuánto tiempo requerirá. Y tampoco significa que todo, como las preferencias o los valores, pueda cambiarse.
~ Carol S. Dweck
From the Kearney Hub interview on her book Feb. 5, 2018 " Especially for the Christian Writer." "I want would-be writers to know, however they use their passion and skills in writing, whether they write encouraging letters to shut-ins or soldiers, letters to the editor or novels, if they are using the writing talent God has given, they are writers.
~ Carolyn R. Scheidies
I got real acting experience, which I'd never had partly because I still wasn't so sure that I wanted to be an actress. But maybe it was something I could do without a high school diploma or accredited skills of any kind whatsoever - a job that would pay me enough of a wage to let me go out into the world and start what I would laughingly come to call my own actual life.
~ Carrie Fisher
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
~ Casey Stengel
You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.
~ George Herbert Walker Bush
Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.
~ George Spafford
With these skills, you can go for years without ever meeting a situation where you have to defend yourself.
~ George Young
If your whole team consists of novice programmers, your expertise will give you considerable power; but if the other team members are also experts, they will attach less importance to your technical expertise. In that case, they'll pay more attention to organizational power, like the power to acquire extra hardware, to extend the schedule, or to capture a more interesting assignment.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?
~ Geraldine Brooks
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
~ Heywood Broun
On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.
~ George Jessel
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
~ John F. Kennedy
The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
~ Euripides
Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.
~ Pindar
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
~ Jonathan Swift